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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 126 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAHIZ (
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ABU 'UTHMAN 'AMR
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BAHR UL-JAHIZ; i.e. " the man the pupils of whose eyes are prominent ") (d. 869)
  , Arabian writer . He spent his
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life and devoted himself in Basra chiefly to the study of polite literature . A Mu'tazilite in his religious beliefs, he
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developed a
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system of his own and founded a
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sect named after him . He was favoured by
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Ibn uz-Zaiyat, the
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vizier of the
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caliph Wathiq . His
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work, the Kitab ul-Bayan wat-Tabyin, a discursive
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treatise on rhetoric, has been published in two volumes at Cairo (1895) . The Kitab ul-Mahasin wal-Addad was edited by G.
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van Vloten as Le Livre
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des beautes et des antitheses (
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Leiden, 1898) ; the Kitab ul-Bu-hala . Le Livre des avares, ed. by the same (Leiden, 1900) ; two other smaller
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works, the Excellences of the
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Turks and the Superiority in Glory of the Blacks over the Whites, also prepared by the same . The Kitab ul-Ilayawan, or "
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Book of Animals," a philological and
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literary, not a scientific, work, was published at Cairo (1906) . (G . W .

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